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Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
從她親眼看到的情形來說，她并不以為他們倆真正地愛上了，不過相互之間顯然已經發生了好感，這叫她很是不安，她決定在離開哈福郡以前，要把這件事和伊麗莎白談個明白，并且要解釋給她聽，讓這樣的關系發展下去，實在太莽撞。
To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers. About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. They had, therefore, many acquaintance in common; and, though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy's father, five years before, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends, than she had been in the way of procuring.
可是韋翰討好起嘉丁納太太來，另有一套辦法，這和他吸引別人的本領完全不同。遠在十多年以前嘉丁納太太還沒有結婚的時候，曾在德比郡他所出生的那個地區住過好些時候，因此她跟他有許多共同的朋友，雖說自從五年前達西先生的父親去世以后，韋翰就不大到那地方去，可是他卻能報道給嘉丁納太太一些有關她從前的朋友們的消息，比她自己打聽得來的還要新鮮。
Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known the late Mr. Darcy by character perfectly well. Here, consequently, was an inexhaustible subject of discourse. In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself. On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember something of that gentleman's reputed disposition, when quite a lad, which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
嘉丁納太太曾經親眼看到過彭伯里，對于老達西先生也是久聞大名，光是這件事，就是個談不完的話題。她把韋翰先生所詳盡描寫的彭伯里和她自己記憶中的彭伯里比較了一下，又把彭伯里主人的德行稱贊了一番，談的人和聽的人都各得其樂。她聽到他談起現在這位達西先生對他的虧待，便竭力去回想那位先生小時候的個性如何，是否和現在相符，她終于有自信地記起了從前確實聽人說過，費茨威廉·達西先生是個脾氣很壞又很高傲的孩子。
